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Art Supply Donation! poco beads Artists in Healthcare Manitoba sends a HUGE thank you out to Poco Beads for their generous donation of beads and tools for the Art by the Big Blue Chair program at Cancercare MB, the Art at the Bedside program at St. Boniface Hospital and the Art program at Misericordia Place! Read More…	Ann Germani Ann Germani is a professionally trained musician and teacher who discovered and developed her passion for playing the harp while living on Baffin Island, Nunavut. Since then, she has been performing at Ceilidhs, Community Concerts and Festivals, with orchestras and choirs, and is currently playing second harp with The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Ann has lectured, conducted workshops, and helped establish music education programs in libraries, pre-school centres, conservatories, schools and colleges across Canada.	A poem, Jan 2013 Poetry from the hospital; “Stick by twig my nest is pulled away, As love, the mother eagle has her way All that keeps me safe- built e’er so high, must go for she would have me fly. Still, seed I am the soil is ever high mine the cross, the grave the sky” Read More…
Lois, Vanessa and Stacey Today at St. Boniface Hospital local AIHM artists Lois Gillespie, Vanessa Kuzina and Stacey Kemmesies sing for the folks on E4 during the afternoon tea. It was like the Andrews Sisters came for tea- time.	Music Heroes! Cheers to Lois Gillespie and Tim Cummings for their profile with peacebeats.org. They were noted in their ‘music heroes’ section on health causes. CMU student Stacey Kemmesies will be playing her practicum at St. Boniface Hospital and Tache Centre/Action Marguerite this academic year. Artists in Healthcare are delighted to have Stacey.	Filling Hospitals with Music The impact is immediate and huge and it shows you why you chose to be an artist. -Keith Price, guitarist They’re like travelling minstrels, making their way through the lobbies and the wards of CancerCare, St. Boniface Hospital, the Grace Hospital and other healthcare facilities. Read More…